1983_Japanese_House_of_Councillors_election
House of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 26 June 1983. The result was a victory for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which won 68 of the 126 seats up for election, retaining its majority in the House.
Quick Facts 129 of the 252 seats in the House of Councillors 127 seats needed for a majority, First party ...
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| Party | National | Constituency | Seats | |||||||||
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Not up | Won | Total after | +/– | |||
| Liberal Democratic Party | 16,441,437 | 35.33 | 19 | 19,975,034 | 43.24 | 49 | 69 | 68 | 137 | +2 | ||
| Japan Socialist Party | 7,590,331 | 16.31 | 9 | 11,217,515 | 24.28 | 13 | 22 | 22 | 44 | –3 | ||
| Kōmeitō | 7,314,465 | 15.72 | 8 | 3,615,995 | 7.83 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 26 | 0 | ||
| Japanese Communist Party | 4,163,877 | 8.95 | 5 | 4,859,334 | 10.52 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 14 | +2 | ||
| Democratic Socialist Party | 3,888,429 | 8.36 | 4 | 2,638,780 | 5.71 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 0 | ||
| New Party for Salaried Men | 1,999,244 | 4.30 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | New | |||||
| Japan Wellbeing Party | 1,577,630 | 3.39 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | New | |||||
| New Liberal Club | 1,239,169 | 2.66 | 1 | 563,811 | 1.22 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Dainiin Club | 1,142,349 | 2.45 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | New | |||||
| Other parties | 1,179,997 | 2.54 | 0 | 1,561,835 | 3.38 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | – | ||
| Independents | 1,768,021 | 3.83 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | –7 | |||||
| Vacant | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | – | |||||||
| Total | 46,536,928 | 100.00 | 50 | 46,200,325 | 100.00 | 79 | 123 | 129 | 252 | 0 | ||
| Valid votes | 46,536,928 | 97.57 | 46,200,325 | 96.86 | ||||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 1,159,404 | 2.43 | 1,500,034 | 3.14 | ||||||||
| Total votes | 47,696,332 | 100.00 | 47,700,359 | 100.00 | ||||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 83,682,416 | 57.00 | 83,682,416 | 57.00 | ||||||||
| Source: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,[1][2] National Diet | ||||||||||||
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| Constituency | Total seats |
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| LDP | JSP | Kōmeitō | JCP | DSP | NPSM | NLC | JWP | DC | Others | Ind. | ||
| Aichi | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Akita | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Aomori | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Chiba | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Ehime | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Fukui | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Fukuoka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Fukushima | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Gifu | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Gunma | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Hiroshima | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Hokkaido | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Hyōgo | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Ibaraki | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Ishikawa | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Iwate | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kagawa | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kagoshima | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Kanagawa | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Kōchi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kumamoto | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Kyoto | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Mie | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Miyagi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Miyazaki | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Nagano | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Nagasaki | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Nara | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Niigata | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Ōita | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Okinawa | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Okayama | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Osaka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Saga | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Saitama | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Shiga | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Shimane | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Shizuoka | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tochigi | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Tokushima | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tokyo | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Tottori | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Toyama | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Wakayama | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Yamagata | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Yamaguchi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Yamanashi | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| National | 50 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 126 | 68 | 22 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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- "27-11 Allotted Number, Candidates, Eligible Voters as of Election Day, Voters and Voting Percentages of Ordinary Elections for the House of Councillors (1947-2004)". Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Archived from the original on 2006-01-04.